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moggy1968
All other things being equal I would always go for siting an inverter anywhere other than a loft, but sometimes there are no other options.
In a loft it is hot, difficult to read and harder to maintain. Carefully chjoice of inverter helps to mitigate overheating but I would still rather it ran cool.
All this stuff about not having long DC runs is a complete red herring. There is no problem at all with long DC runs provided the cable is safely routed, protected and sized for the job. The voltage drop on the DC run is almost always less per meter than the AC because of the higher voltage (double the voltage, quarter the loss)
In a loft it is hot, difficult to read and harder to maintain. Carefully chjoice of inverter helps to mitigate overheating but I would still rather it ran cool.
All this stuff about not having long DC runs is a complete red herring. There is no problem at all with long DC runs provided the cable is safely routed, protected and sized for the job. The voltage drop on the DC run is almost always less per meter than the AC because of the higher voltage (double the voltage, quarter the loss)
